[05/15] cxl: Allow a default context to be associated with an external pci_dev

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Fri Jul 15 20:53:12 AEST 2016


On Wed, 2016-13-07 at 21:17:04 UTC, Ian Munsie wrote:
> From: Ian Munsie <imunsie at au1.ibm.com>
> 
> The cxl kernel API has a concept of a default context associated with
> each PCI device under the virtual PHB. The Mellanox CX4 will also use
> the cxl kernel API, but it does not use a virtual PHB - rather, the AFU
> appears as a physical function as a peer to the networking functions.
> 
> In order to allow the kernel API to work with those networking
> functions, we will need to associate a default context with them as
> well. To this end, refactor the corresponding code to do this in vphb.c
> and export it so that it can be called from the PHB code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie at au1.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/a19bd79e31769626d288cc016e

cheers


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